Amherst College

At one point we contemplated putting a bathroom on the cover of the viewbook. There were many options: the Rilke bathroom, the walls of which were covered with hand-written excerpts from the letters of Rainer Maria Rilke; the Salome bathroom, which was covered with excerpts from the diaries of Rilke’s intellectual and romantic partner, Lou Andreas-Salomé; the Joyce bathroom (excerpts from Ulysses); or, yes, the Rowling bathroom. It wasn’t graffiti; it was love.